The Center for Educational Access serves as the central campus resource for students with disabilities and accommodations to remove barriers to accessing digital services.

"When a student has multiple online courses in one semester, the student often shares with us their struggles about navigating the digital content within those different courses," said Heidi Scher, associate director of assistive technology at the Center for Educational Access. "We hear this from students with all different types of disabilities, such as low vision or blindness, visual processing disorders, ADD/ADHD and short-term memory difficulties."

"Digital accessibility is the single most important aspect of providing open access for all in an increasingly digital world," Chris Nixon, director of digital strategy, said. "Practically speaking, good digital accessibility positively affects all of us in some way on a regular basis, whether we know it or not."

The university's technical standards for measuring accessibility are those published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the Worldwide Web Consortium, W3C. The university follows the most recent Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.